Planned Parenthood Statement Fails to Answer Questions Raised by Video

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Yesterday we shared an undercover video of two actors meeting with a top Planned Parenthood official to discuss the sale of fetal organs. The video is nearly 9 minutes long, and includes dialogue about the procurement of lung, heart, and muscle tissue from aborted babies.

We also posted the unedited video footage; it is over two and a half hours long, and it shows the meeting in its entirety. You can watch both videos here.

Planned Parenthood has since issued a statement that is largely dismissive of the video. Here it is: (more…)

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Updated: Video Shows Planned Parenthood Official Discussing Sale of Aborted Babies

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An undercover video released by The Center for Medical Progress today shows actors posing as buyers from a human biologics company meeting with Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola.

During the video, Dr. Nucatola describes how organs from aborted babies can be retained and sold to companies for various uses. At one point in the video clip, she says,

“A lot of people want intact hearts these days, because they’re looking for specific nodes…And then, like I said, always as many intact livers as we can…Some people want lower extremities too, which, that’s simple. I mean, that’s easy.”

The Center for Medical Progress says the video is its first in a series on what it calls “a nearly 3-year-long investigative journalism study of Planned Parenthood’s illegal trafficking of aborted fetal parts.”

You can watch the video below. Warning: The content is disturbing.

Updated: The Unedited Video is Online

The Center for Medical Progress has posted the unedited video. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes in length. You can watch it below.

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Report Shows Scholarship Decline from ’14 to ’15 at Arkansas Lottery

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The Arkansas Lottery released its financial report for the month of June earlier today. As previously expected, the Arkansas Lottery allocated a little less than $72.5 million for college scholarships during Fiscal Year 2015–almost $9 million less than the “very conservative budget” lottery officials initially approved last year.

The report shows that from Fiscal Year 2014 to Fiscal Year 2015 lottery ticket sales declined by about $1.4 million, but lottery scholarship funds dropped by roughly $9 million.

Last June the Arkansas Lottery supplemented scholarship funding with $5 million from its Unclaimed Prizes account.

All told, the Arkansas Lottery spent 17.7% of its income on scholarships during the past year–down from 19.8% in Fiscal Year 2014. Below is a breakdown of lottery revenue and scholarship allocations from the past 12 months. (more…)

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